RDF now! /
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Your metaphors are always stupid. Solar incentives are essentially a bribe, positive reinforcement. And the reward for getting them is less cost of electricity for at least 25 years.
Lack of an automated rdf is negative reinforcement that disincentives players to not level alts or to raid log. It causes players to choose to do less dungeon runs, the bare minimum needed to get only the essential gear. Less players doing less dungeons means less socialization.
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And the incentive of being social when there is no automated system is it makes grouping easier with the more social connections you make.
Most people just choose to not do the dungeons since itâs so much easier to just quest solo and level that way. Making it harder to find a group causes most people to not look for groups. You could make it even harder to find a group by eliminating the retail lfg they added and the /4 looking for a group chat. People wouldnât be more social if they had to do a /who and whisper people. For most people theyâll simply give up doing dungeons unless absolutely necessary. Then there would be even less socialization in the game.
Your theory that you can punish people into being more social falls apart when most people decide to opt out of that part of the game.
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The fact you view not having an automated system to do the work for you as a punishment says a lot about you.
And people can chose to outright ignore grouped content, thats true, but that doesnt change the fact that a lack of an automated system does incentives making social connections and netowrking. Which by the way is a good skill to have for real life as well.
And? The same applies with RDF in the game.
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I have lots of friends and acquaintances in real life. Lack of rdf in wow didnât help me make friends at all. I made friends with my classmates in elementary school in the 60âs before there was an internet. Itâs sad that you needed to learn how to make friends in a video game. What kind of antisocial deviant were you before wow.
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I mean it says a lot more about you that you feel the people who whisper âIâll goâ when pugging a dungeon are your BFFâs.
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Never said i learned it from video games.
Once again you try to put words in my mouth i never said just to be insulting 
Never said that.
Except Iâm not 
You are the one pretending that the people you pug dungeons with are anything other than single serving friends.
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You view them as disposable and replaceable based on your wants. Thats why you view them as âsingle serving friendsâ.
I see each one as a person and will try to make a social connection, many times it doesnt happen, but it happens often enough. But i treat them as people, not desposable numbers to help you finish the dungeon like you seem to.
You all anti RDF people really think that RDF is anti social but yet dont even realize how the game is being run now? The currect LFG: post up for hours, finally get the whole group together. The group leader better hope someone is at stone with them otherwise people leave because of no sommon, then you have people ask for buffs and run threw the dungeon, a GG at the end then hearth out⌠God forbid you wipe once during all that cause after 1 or 2 wipes most people leave.
The RDF people want, teleports everyone to the dungeon, buff up and clear⌠GG at the end and everyone leavesâŚ
ITâS THE SAME THING!!! I just dont have to wait for hours on RDF CAUSE xrealmâŚ
Plus the xp at the end was a bonus, alot of people did it because it was fun to clear with friends, they didnt have to spend hours trying to form a group to clear stuff. it was click for que while questing or crafting, not sitting in a cap city waiting for respond for spamming what your trying to do because no one is watching LFG tool half the time.
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Pro tip even if RDF was in the game people who genuinely enjoyed playing with you would still do so.
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I mean, i play the game very socially, you can chose not to, but it seems to have made your game experience and mine very different.
Pro tip, you have a much harder time finding people on your realm to pug when there is a cross realm automated system.
For someone who cries about projection and words being put in their mouth you sure do it a lot to others.
You mean when there is one (1) option people will have to use it? mind blowing thought process you have here.
Just because you find those connections from RDF to not be worth while doesnât mean they are. You hilariously fail to see how increasing connectivity increased potential for social interaction beyond your server.
Also LFG grouping right now in Wrath requires ZERO social connections.
Citation needed, this is not a fact. Unless you want to push your âpeople wont group with me if thereâs RDFâ narrative. Which is very counter to your âI have many social connectionsâ stance. Why would these players/friends just up and abandon you just like that because of RDF? To most rational people your statements are juxtaposed in this area and just do not make sense.
Either you are just creating imaginary situations or lying about the depth or importance of how others view their connection to you in game. Which is it? will RDF cause your friends to abandon you in game for a system? or is it more likely that the way you and your friends start a dungeon is all that changes? You are tilting at windmills.
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This conversation is like OCD tennis. Wrath was a very popular expansion, no telling how many people arent playing wotlk semiclassic because of this.
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And? The people you do find will actually be people who value chat pugging.
That should be a win win for everyone, well except you know that the vast majority of people would RDF since itâs simply better for what theyâre trying to do.
Because it is, once that can of worms opened it became a punishment to remove it.
Youâve been able to see it all throughout classic, as long as you actually play the danged game and open your eyes once in a while.
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